Woven fabric.



- Patented 1an. 3o, |900. vF. M. CLARK.

WUVEN FABRIC.

(Application led Aug. 19; 1898,)

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Tame artnr OFFICE FRANK M. CLARK, OF TILTON, NEIV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF ONF-HALF TO FVILLIAM I. HOLMES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WOVEN FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,084, dated January 30, 1900.

Application led August 19,1898. Serial No. 6891029. (No specimens.)

To all whom t may concern: represent padding7 or listing warps. d Be it known that I, FRANK M. CLARK, of represents the weft-thread at one side of the Tilton, county of Belknap, and State of New cloth, and fthe weft-thread at the opposite Hampshire, have made certain new and useside. 5'fnllmprovementsin Woven Fabrics,of which I will first describe the laying of a pick the following is adescription sufficiently full, from one filling-thread d, the parts being in clear, and exact to enable any person skilled the position shown in Fig. l. The end q of the in the art or science to which said invention lilling-thread d is held in any suitable device appertains to make and use the same, referand passes nearlyin parallelism with the ad- 6o io ence being had to the accompanying drawjacent outer warp-thread a, as in Fig. l, to ings, forming part of this specification, in the bobbin. There are the ordinary number which-g of threads in the warp for the width of the Figure l is a plan view showinga portion of main cloth-body, no additions being made for the warp-threads with the iilling-threads at listing or selvage. `In the first movement at 15 opposite sides of the warp in position to be starting the filling d is projected double uncarried through; Fig. 2, a like view showing der and over the alternate Warp-threads a b the first movement of carrying one fillinguntil one-half way across the warp in an apthread through the warp; Fig. 3, a plan showproximate V shape, as shown in Fig. 2, the ing the completion of this movement; Fig. 4., end q being still held. At this point the end 7o 2o a similar view showing the position of the q is let go and thus freed is carried through strands when the reed has laid this thread; the remaining warps until said end has passed Fig. 5, a view like that in Fig. 2, showing acthe outer warp a at the opposite side, the potion of the filling-thread in the next following sitions assumed being shown in Fig. 3. The movement; Fig. 6, a view like thatin Fig. 3, tension of the warp-threads that have engaged z5 showing the thread cnt and in the warp; Fig. the Iilling d during the first half of its course 7, a plan showing the cut thread after being described is sufficient to prevent more being laid by the reed; Fig. 8, a plan of a section of drawn in from the bobbin after the end qhas the completed cloth; Fig. 9, an edge view of been thus released and projected the balance the same. of the course. Now the thread d lies diago- 8o 3o Like letters of reference indicate correnally across the warp, as in Fig. 3. The reed sponding parts in the different gures of the beats and lays the filling thus projected into drawings. its path in line at right angles to the warp,

My invention relates especially to a Weave as in Fig. 4C, this movement being the ordiof cloth or other fabric in which there is a nary one. The body of this thread is by this 3 5 novel combination of the warp and filling or movement again disposed in` substantially its weft threads whereby an excellent even seloriginal position outside the outer Warp ct, as vage is produced on both edges of the cloth shown in said Fig. 4. Now again is the body without forming listing or the employment of the lilling d entered double over adjacent of what are commonly known as selvagewarp a and under the adjacent warp b, as in 9o 4o threadsorof binders other than the ordinary Fig. 5, alternating until the apex of said V outer threads of the warp. portion is one-half across said Warp. At this The nature of the improvement and the instant the filling dis held by suitable means method whereby it is produced will be underat fu, and simultaneously said filling is cut at stood by those skilled in the art from the folt, Fig. 5, leaving the main end n held, as in 4 5 lowing explanation: Fig. 6. The severed end w is carried through In the drawings, Ct a represent the outer, the rest of the warps and left in the diagonal and b h the intermediate, warp-threads, this position shown in Fig. 6. This is beaten np distinction being made solely to facilitate exby the lay, as shown in Fig. 7. The retained planation of the weave; but it should be un= end o of the filling d is then carried forward roo 5o derstood that all the warp-threads perform into its original position, as in Fig. 7, this like functions-that is, the threads d do not end 'o being the equivalent of the first-described end q, when the second pick is thereafter made from this side of the warp. It will thus be seen that instead of the lling being carried across the warp and returned, as when an ordinary shuttle-weave is employed, two picks consisting of a single strand out from the main thread are laid from the same side of the warp, that also said severed portion passes around or astride of the outer warpthread a at Fig. 8, on the side at which the thread is delivered, and that the severed ends overlap slightly the outer warp-thread aat the opposite side of the fabric, one, q, below and the other, w, above said outer warp-thread,

and now at the opposite side of the Warp the other filling-thread f is entered in identically the same manner for two picks in the Warp as described in disposing filling d, the position of its severed ends q2 and L02 being at the opposite edge of the warp. It will thus be seen that two picks are laid consecutively I, from one side'of the warp and then two picks from the opposite side of said Warp. Each set of two picks consists of a separate U- shaped strand of filling, the loop of the U passing around the outer Warp-thread and its arms being respectively disposed in adjacent sheds and terminating together at the opposite edge of the fabric-that is, there is no other filling-thread laid between the arms of said U-shaped strand. The cloth resulting is of the pattern shown in Figs. 8 and 9.

No extra binding, listing, or selvage threads are employed in my improved cloth, the cut ends being held by the outer warp and the loops fr encircling said outer warp alternately with each pair of ends. Thus without padding the warpthat is, employing extra warpthreads in addition to those required in the determined width of the cloth in order to Weave the illing into said eXtra Warp-threads in distorted manner for the purpose of locking said filling and forming a listing or sel- .being composed of U -shaped strands inserted alternately from opposite sides of the Warp, the loop of each strand encircling the outer warp-thread and the arms of said strand being respectively disposed in adjacent sheds without other illing material between, substantially as described.

2. A fabric comprising warp-threads and interwoven illing-threads,said filling-threads comprising U-shaped strands inserted alternately from opposite sides of the warp, the two arms of each U-shaped strand being respectively laid in next adjacent sheds Without other filling material between said arms, the loop of said strand encircling the outer warp-thread at the side from which its arms are thus inserted, and the ends of said arms terminating at the opposite outer warp-thread Without being encircled by an adjacent Iilling-strand loop substantially as specified.

FRANK M. CLARK.

Witnesses:

J. STUART BANFIELD, JOHN T. MURPHY. 

